'D' Major: Intensity Marks Carroll Dashiell's approach to music and life
By Garnet Bass
By the time he was 16, Dashiell had played every Beethoven symphony, received his musician's union card and earned a scholarship to the Tanglewood Institute, where he would play with members of the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops. He went on to travel world-wide and record with jazz greats such as Bobby Watson, Maurice Hines, Stephanie Mills, Ray Charles and the Fifth Dimension, all before joining the ECU faculty as director of the jazz studies program and the ECU Jazz Ensemble. He was then all of 28.

Leading Indicators
By Garnet Bass
Researchers across the ECU campus devote special attention to issues of particular importance to the university's home region. The articles that follow describe a few of their efforts. Projects from the Regional Development Institute paint a more accurate picture of eastern North Carolina's economy.

From lab to market
By Garnet Bass
If all goes well, freeze-dried blood platelets with the ability to quickly stop bleeding in severely injured patients may hit the marketplace before the end of 2008.

Economic Earthquake
By Garnet Bass
Professor Dr. Randall E. Parker revisits the Great Depression through interviews with top economists who experienced it.

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